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WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 27 August 2023

GUYANA | Chattel Slavery and Indentureship: Distinguishing the Incomparable Dear Editor,

MONTEGO BAY, August 27, 2023 - On Friday, Charles Gladstone, on behalf of the Gladstone family, descendants of one of the largest slave owners in Guyana Sir John Gladstone, offered “sincerest apologies” for his participation in the Tran-Atlantic Slave Trade and in holding Africans in slavery in Demerara.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 27 August 2023

GUYANA | Chattel Slavery and Indentureship: Distinguishing the Incomparable Dear Editor,

GUYANA | Adam's Notebook: Jagdeo makes it clear who is the boss !

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 23, 2023 - There is an old saying that two captains cannot steer a ship. And indeed if that happens, surely there would be disaster.

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 25 August 2023

GUYANA | Jagdeo's tirade against The Washington Conference on Guyana Must be Condemned

NEW York, New York, August 20, 2023 - Amidst rising tensions in Guyana over the PPP government's alleged racism, racial discrimination and injustice against African Guyanese, the country's Vice President,...

Dr. Roxanne Edwards-Jones Op-Ed 20 August 2023

JAMAICA | The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the Constitution - Too Many Violations.

KINGSTON, Jamaica August 13, 2023 - Justice Minister Delroy Chuck's recent imperious manner in the House of Representatives in piloting an amendment to the foundation rules by which the society...

AJ Nicholson Op-Ed 13 August 2023

US Moves to Curtail China’s Economic Investment in the Caribbean

On March 8, 2023, General Laura J. Richardson of the United States (U.S.) Southern Command gave testimony at a congressional hearing wherein she issued a warning to U.S. lawmakers about...

Tamanisha John Op-Ed 12 August 2023

NIGER | Ignore the Bluff, ECOWAS Will Not go to War in Niger Says Joseph Wangija

Bola Tinubu, Nigeria's president and current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is perhaps one of the masterful politicians of our generation - a political godfather...

Joseph Wangija Op-Ed 11 August 2023

GUYANA | Adam's Notebook: Their children died in the Mahdia dorm fire, now the government is bullying them

GEORGETOWN, August 6, 2023 - There is no law that says that someone must be bullied into accepting whatever compensation is being offered. In fact, it is illegal. One should...

Adam Harris Op-Ed 07 August 2023

JAMAICA | The crucifixion of Isat Buchanan

The ugly side of Jamaican society is the abuse of its people that is endemic to the way it was forged in slavery, tempered in colonial oppression and exploitation, and...

Dr. Michael Witter Op-Ed 05 August 2023

GUYANA | Importing Foreign Nurses? What about working conditions for local health care workers ? asks Forde

georgetown, Guyana, August 1, 2023 - It is settled knowledge that the health of a nation rides high on the human resources of its healthcare system. Guyana has been spending...

WiredJA News Team Op-Ed 01 August 2023

GUYANA | Adam’s notebook : When a government ignores people

GUYANA | July, 28, 2023 - Many years ago, the late Dr Ptolemy Reid told an audience that people are more important than things. Some perhaps saw it as a...

Adam Harris Op-Ed 28 July 2023

JAMAICA | The Government's Emancipated Thinking?

KINGSTON, Jamaica July 28, 2023 - Dear Editor, The government, buttressed by its abnormal extensive legal phalanx, determined that it was immensely important and urgent for there to be swift amendment of...

A.J.Nicholson Op-Ed 28 July 2023

GUYANA | Adam's Notebook - The signs of racial discrimination are ominous

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 21, 2023 - Whether intentional or not, the government is sending a message that it is not keen to deal with any organisation that is predominantly black....

Adam Harris Op-Ed 21 July 2023

JAMAICA'S disgraceful response to the Haitian Tragedy

MONTEGO BAY, July 19, 2023 - On Tuesday the 18th of July, 29 adult members of the 37 Haitians who landed at Boston Bay in Portland a week ago, were...

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed 21 July 2023

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